Can't install a Brother printer in an Arch-based OS
 

Hello everybody,
I'm running Endeavour OS and I would like to install a Brother printer, like I did in another PC with Manjaro. I opened Pamac,looked for DCP-J562DW drivers, installed it but nothing happens: the job appears briefly in the print queue and suddenly vanishes. I've had no problem with this printer in Manjaro and Arcolinux, I've been searching for a solution in Google and Arch forums but I couldn't find it ...is there anybody who can help me?

Thank You

try this site:

https://help.brother-usa.com/app/ans...l-tool---linux

The installer

linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.1-1

worked great for us.

I did this when I installed on KDE Neon, MX, Neptune and Peppermint (yes, I'm a distro-hopper...) and worked flawlessly, but they are all Ubuntu-Debian based systems. Endeavour is Arch and I read that is not a good idea to put a .deb package in it... However, thank you for your suggestion!

Running Manjaro w/ Cinnamon 4 and had no problems on a lenovo and dell.

And there's always debtap to try, too.

Ok, I'll try tomorrow, now here in Spain is too late. Thanks a lot.

Brother provide both .deb and .rpm packages. Most distros have an alien translation program that will create an installable package from at least one of these.

Does the AUR work in this distro? If so, check to see if someone else has created a build for it.

Problem solved! AUR works, but Pamac didn't warn me that i had to install two dependencies more: lib32-glibc and a2ps.
Downloaded, installed and voilá, the printers works!
This is the link sent me by a Endeavour forum user:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=251761

Thank you everybody, I'll mark the thread as solved.

Bye

I think a lot of Brother printers need 32-bit glibc for their filter programs. Of course you don't notice that if you have a .deb- or .rpm-based distro because you can use the Brother install script and that installs the library automatically.